Castro and Lowenstein Lab

The link to the registration page is here: https://www.asgct.org/events/2025-advancing-cell-and-gene-therapies-for-cancer/registration.   Program here Join the world’s leading experts in Philadelphia’s vibrant Historic District for Advancing Cell + Gene Therapies for Cancer, the premier event dedicated to breakthroughs in oncolytic viruses, cell and immunotherapies, and combination approaches. This is your opportunity to immerse yourself in the latest science, discuss critical challenges, and forge collaborations that will shape the future…

Before she began her first professorship at the University of Manchester in England, Dr. Maria Castro had focused most of her work on neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease. But after meeting different colleagues and exploring other focus areas, brain cancer became a new field of interest. She was quickly immersed in the world of cancer progression and novel therapeutics. “At the time, no one…

The University of Michigan Board of Regents has named Domenico Grasso, PhD ’87, as the University’s interim president, effective immediately. Read more here

Thanks to a generous gift by the Goldstein family, we have 9 awards of $1500, each in a different field of endeavor named for someone with UM connections who is famous in that field. These prizes are not solely thesis prizes, but recognize overall excellence, or demonstrated potential for excellence, in the various fields of endeavor. • Robert Hayden Humanities Award• Marshall Sahlins Social Science…

As part of its Cancer Biology Training Program, the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center provides exposure to cancer research for highly motivated and talented college undergraduates. This program gives the successful applicants an opportunity to explore potential careers in the field of cancer research. Internships are aimed at students who are completing their sophomore or junior undergraduate year this spring. Applications are encouraged from…

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. 

2025 Annual Meeting of the Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium (TRCCC)was held on February 19-21, 2025, at Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Champion, PA. The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Presented the “SITC Travel Award for Best Postdoctoral Presentation “to Dr. Varela in recognition of early career achievement through scientific excellence in the field of cancer immunotherapy.

Dr. Pedro Lowenstein was a Keynote speaker at the Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium (TRCCC) Annual Conference February 19-21, 2025. Dr. Lowenstein spoke on Reprogramming the immune microenvironment in glioblastoma: results from an immune-mediated gene therapy Phase I clinical trial.